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  Hello Dear Friends and Readers!   The book of Revelation keeps inspiring me, but I definitely want to note that it is the rest of the cannon of scripture that keeps leading me to make possible connections.  The Bible is one continuous woven story.  It takes the whole thing to be able to begin to see the tapestry.  For example, my most recent Revelation connection is dependent upon scriptures from the Torah, Prophets, and Writings, AND required a bit of digging into ancient history.  It's not wrapped too tightly into a little bow, but I gotta theory...😉  Wanna know more?  Let's go! Today I am thinking about all those eyes 👀 in Revelation chapter 4:6-11 .  It's not the first time we've encountered them, as Ezekiel is eye-witness (get it? 🤣) to a strikingly similar scene in Ezekiel 1:4-18. It is pretty clear that these passages are connected.  Are Ezekiel and John being shown the same vision?  Perhaps a topic for another day....

  Or Perhaps Both... Hello Dear Readers and Friends! If you regularly seek with me, you have been walking along on my recent journey through the book of Revelation.  You may be glad to know that I have completed Revelation and have now started back over "in the beginning."  Today's thoughts actually hit me between the eyes from this week's Torah Portion (Bo) in the book of Exodus.   In my most recent blogs, we have looked at Yeshua's return through different points of view.  I shared from scripture that Yeshua will return as a " thief in the night " to those who are unprepared. But, He will return as the long-awaited bridegroom to those who are actively watching and waiting.   Same Return Same Yeshua Different Outcomes Different Outcomes?  What do you mean? For those who have had their names written in the Lamb's Book of Life , the return of Yeshua will be a time of great celebration.  These individuals will enter into the Wedding Supp...

 Hello Dear Friends and Readers!  Well, I made it to the end of the book of Revelation 💥 There are many thoughts and doctrines that people hold to when it comes to Revelation, but one thing is for certain:  He. Is. Coming. Again. -- Can I hear an Amen?! As we near the end, we hear The One Sitting on the Throne say,  "It Is Done!  I am the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End.  To anyone who is thirsty I myself will give water free of charge from the Fountain of Life.  He who overcomes will receive these things, and I will be his God, and he will be my son." Rev 21:6-7   HallaluYAH! But who are these overcomers?  We looked a bit at them a few blogs back, but this seems worthy of a bit more attention.  We want to be overcomers!! Recall that overcomers are spoken of in relation to the 7 churches at the beginning of Revelation.  We also see them spoken of here: "...those who are called , chosen , and faithful will o vercome ...

  Greetings Friends and Readers!  You may recall from my recent series, Was the Church Born at Pentecost , that I am currently making my way through the book of Revelation.  It's a slow walk, and I am finding morsels that I have skipped right over in the past.  For example...those 7 churches -- in the past I have rushed through reading about them. As I have taken my time digging into what Yeshua had to say to the churches, it has been quite exciting.  One notice is that Yeshua gave a message to overcomers within each church.  Don't we all want to be overcomers!   Want to know more?  Let's go! The Pattern As we begin looking at the 7 churches, we will see a pattern.  Each letter: Is written to "the angel" of the church; Begins with a different description of Yeshua directly tied to the overall description that John gives us in Revelation chapter 1; Moves in to commendations (when there are any to give); Then continues with thing...

Hello Friends and Readers!  Good to be back at the keyboard again.  In Part 2 of this series, we looked at the Blue Letter Bible and the integrated Strong's Concordance and Thayer's Greek Lexicon to examine the word "church" as found in the New Testament.   We discovered that the Greek word "ekklesia" (Strong's G1577 ) and the Hebrew word "kahal" (Strong's H6951 ) can be used interchangeably, and that the Hebrew word goes all the way back to Genesis.   So, if a word equal to the word "church" existed in Genesis, can we believe that "the church" was born in Acts Chapter 2?   I question that. Let us first look at the usage of "kahal" in  Genesis 28:3 .  The verse reads: "Now may El Shaddai bless you, and make you fruitful and multiply you so that you will become an assembly of peoples."  I have highlighted the word "assembly," as that is our target word.   What would Genesis 28:3 read like ...

Welcome back to the next installment of "Was the Church Born at Pentecost?"  I promised you in Part 1 that I would share the way I determine relationship between Greek and Hebrew words found in scripture.  Our target word for this series is "church." Will we find evidence that "the church" may have existed prior to Acts Chapter 2 ? I have made a short video of me using online tools to answer this question.  Two things may be helpful for you to know: 1) the website I use is the Blue Letter Bible website; 2) my doggies may or may not have been misbehaving during the recording. So, here is the video link, which will make up the remainder of this blog/vlog. ⇩   Greek / Hebrew Research Video I am new at knowing how to do a screen video, so I hope this has been helpful.  Please provide me with feedback on how to simplify or make it better for my readers.  This is new territory for me.  Thank you! So, if you watched the video, you know 2 thin...